| Title: | Spatial Boundary Data for Malawi Administrative Levels |
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| Description: | Provides official spatial boundary datasets for Malawi at multiple administrative levels: country (level 0), regions (level 1), districts (level 2), and traditional authorities (level 3). Also includes Lake Malawi boundary data. Boundary data are the Common Operational Datasets (COD-AB) sourced from the National Statistics Office of Malawi and distributed via the OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), version 02 <https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-mwi>. Intended for use with the 'mwmap' package or any spatial analysis workflow requiring Malawi administrative boundaries. |
| Authors: | Chifundo Bita [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Chifundo Bita <[email protected]> |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Built: | 2026-06-06 08:17:15 UTC |
| Source: | https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmapdata |
Spatial data for Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa.
major_lakesmajor_lakes
An sf object with 1 feature and Natural Earth lake attributes:
Lake name
Alternative lake name
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for the lake boundary
Natural Earth lake polygons
National boundary of Malawi at administrative level 0.
mw_level_0mw_level_0
An sf object with 1 feature and 5 fields:
Country name (Malawi)
Country ISO code (MW)
Area in square kilometres
Centroid latitude
Centroid longitude
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for the national boundary
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
The three administrative regions of Malawi: Northern, Central, and Southern.
mw_level_1mw_level_1
An sf object with 3 features and 7 fields:
Region name (Northern, Central, Southern)
Region code (MW1, MW2, MW3)
Country name
Country code
Area in square kilometres
Centroid latitude
Centroid longitude
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for regional boundaries
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
District-level administrative boundaries for all 32 districts of Malawi, including the four city districts (Blantyre City, Lilongwe City, Mzuzu City, Zomba City) added in the 2023 boundary update.
mw_level_2mw_level_2
An sf object with 32 features and 12 fields:
District name (e.g., Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzimba)
District code (e.g., MW201)
Region name
Region code
Country name
Country code
Area in square kilometres
Centroid latitude
Centroid longitude
Region name (convenience alias for ADM1_EN)
District name (convenience alias for ADM2_EN)
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for district boundaries
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
Traditional Authority (TA) level administrative boundaries representing third-level subdivisions within districts, governed by traditional leaders.
mw_level_3mw_level_3
An sf object with 433 features and 16 fields:
Traditional Authority name
Traditional Authority code
Reference name for the Traditional Authority
District name
District code
Region name
Region code
Country name
Country code
Area in square kilometres
Centroid latitude
Centroid longitude
Region name (convenience alias for ADM1_EN)
District name (convenience alias for ADM2_EN)
Traditional Authority name (convenience alias for ADM3_EN)
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for TA boundaries
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
A utility to confirm that the spatial objects in mwmapdata are well-formed sf objects.
mwmapdata_check(x = mw_level_2)mwmapdata_check(x = mw_level_2)
x |
An sf object to check. Defaults to |
Logical. TRUE if x is a valid sf object.